In this lesson, students learn that the probability of a chance event is likely, unlikely or neither. Students will also learn to predict the probability of a chance event and compare that prediction to actual observations by collecting data.

During the lesson, students explore mean and median with heights of their class. Using their data, they determine which is the best, either mean or median, to answer the question they are investigating.

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